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Ryszard Kulpinski ranks among the exceptional pipemakers of the city of Przemysl. He started as an apprentice in the workshop of the Walat brothers in 1956. Here he learned the craft and how to grapple with the economic and political adversities of communist Poland - e.g. the lack of good raw materials (esp. briar!) and the various and enduring attempts of the state to socialize the pipecrafters. For decades Polish pipes were produced mainly from the wood of pear and walnut trees. Some Polish pipemakers still fall back on these materials today – rather for sentimental reasons, though. | Ryszard Kulpinski ranks among the exceptional pipemakers of the city of Przemysl. He started as an apprentice in the workshop of the Walat brothers in 1956. Here he learned the craft and how to grapple with the economic and political adversities of communist Poland - e.g. the lack of good raw materials (esp. briar!) and the various and enduring attempts of the state to socialize the pipecrafters. For decades Polish pipes were produced mainly from the wood of pear and walnut trees. Some Polish pipemakers still fall back on these materials today – rather for sentimental reasons, though. | ||